Tiziana La Melia works across painting, poetry, video, collage, and sculpture – gleaning the detritus of the everyday and transmuting it into material textures, iterative shapes, and symbols to move through layers of diasporic time. She is the author of The Eyelash and the Monochrome (Talonbooks, 2018), lettuce lettuce please go bad (Talonbooks, 2024), and i come from a long line of people who don’t use words (Archive Books, 2025). In 2006 she was a student in Roy Miki’s metamorporphic class “Getting Personal: The Autobiographical Impulse in Contemporary Literature” at SFU. She is a sessional instructor at Emily Carr University and currently editing a Canzone with Christian Vistan as part of a two-person exhibition at Unit 17.